While breast cancer mortality rates have declined over the last few decades in Florida for all women, regardless of race or ethnicity, Florida Black women are still twice as likely to die from breast cancer compared to other ethnicities, according to an analysis of medical records from 1990 to 2015. Around 1990, breast cancer mortality […]
African-American women should have a breast cancer risk assessment at age 30 to determine if they should undergo breast cancer screening earlier than age 40, according to new breast cancer screening guidelines issued by the American College of Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging. Both societies continue to recommend that breast cancer screening for
Black and White women diagnosed with breast cancer were just as likely to be carrying pathogenc variants in 12 genes linked to a risk of breast cancer in a study of nearly 30,000 women. “A potential reason that past studies showed that Black women who underwent commercial testing had more mutations than white women is
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Obesity in Black women increases their risk of recurrence of breast cancer or even dying, but not so in Americans of European descent, according to a new study from Indiana University. Researchers analyzed data from a chemotherapy clinical trial involving 5,000 women. When they looked at the type of breast cancer, obesity was associated with
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Black women with breast cancer are six times more likely than White women to have a distant spread of their cancer, regardless of their age or the stage of their cancer at diagnosis. This could be one reason why Black women are more likely to die f breast cancer than White women. Researchers at Mount
In a study of 23,123 women diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer between 2010 and 2015, Black women were 16 percent more likely than White women to die from the cancer. This disparity in mortality was partially explained by the finding that Black women were 31 percent less likely to receive surgery and 11 percent
African American women with nonmetastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) had a significantly higher risk of breast-cancer mortality compared with White women, according to a study of 23,213 U.S. patients diagnosed with the cancer from 2010 to 2015. Compared with White women, African American women diagnosed with TNBC were less likely to be treated with surgery
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Black military veterans diagnosed with stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were 25 percent more likely than Whites to delay surgery more than 12 weeks after diagnosis. Veterans who waited more than 12 weeks were more likely to have a recurrence of their cancer and they died an average of 7.5 months earlier than
Hair relaxer use was not associated with breast cancer risk overall in 59,000 self-identified Black women enrolled in a study that began in 1995. However, the heaviest users of lye-containing products – those who used these products at least seven times a year for 15 or more years, had about a 30 percent increased risk
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Black, Hispanic, and Asian women were less likely to receive a timely surveillance mammogram after breast cancer treatment than White women, according to a review of 30 studies published between 2000 and 2019. After diagnosing early-stage breast cancer, physicians will usually develop a plan to monitor for signs the cancer has come back, which can
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